F minor

American  

[ef mahy-ner] / ˈɛf ˈmaɪ nər /

noun

1. Music. the key that has F as the tonic or first note of its scale and is represented by a key signature having four flats.

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Example Sentences

This flowed into the rhapsodic lyricism of late Schubert, his substantial Fantasia in F Minor.

From Los Angeles Times

In Warsaw, Guo performed a solo version of Chopin’s Concerto in F Minor on a contemporary replica of an 1830 Pleyel piano made by Paul McNulty, and the Preludes on Chopin’s last piano, an 1848 Pleyel.

From Seattle Times

Andrew Clements, a music critic for the London Guardian, described the rendition on that album of Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor as “one of the greatest piano-duet recordings of all time.”

From Washington Post

“And then the bridge is just as simple,” he says, playing and singing through to an F minor, “‘Ay mariposas, no se aguanten más / Hay que crecer a parte y volver / Hacia adelante seguirás…' There aren’t any new chords in there; it’s just in a different order, so you feel at home inside it.

From Los Angeles Times

In the slow movement of the F minor sonata I recorded, the middle section keeps modulating, keeps modulating, keeps modulating — and then suddenly cuts off at a very tense moment, very foreign to the home key.

From New York Times